Its not the end, but a new beginning...

This telescope has served me for years now, through cold winter and warm summer nights, I have pointed it at distant galaxies and faint nebulae as well as the Moon and planets. I have spent endless hours, struggling with adjustment, collimation, polar alignment, guiding, focus etc. At some point, I (reasonably) managed to overcome all the difficulties and challenges with the Telescope and the associated equipment, its rarely "plug and play":-) After a minor Telescope upgrade( Installing a more rigid spider vane for the secondary mirror, making the focuser tube more solid and doing a anti-light leak repair), this telescope could definitely deliver some decent images and has undoubtedly been my best telescope ever. But now a new telescope is underway which makes the old Skywatcher obsolete.

Probably the last pictures seen through the Skywatcher 200PDS:

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Rosette Nebula

M42 Orion Nebula

Silver Streak Galaxy NGC 4216

B33 Horsehead Nebula in the constallation Orion.

Galaxies in constellation Draco (NGC 5981, NGC 5982 and NGC 5985).

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy(M51a and M51b)

M13

M100 Galaxy.

Coma Cluster Abell 1656, a giant cluster containing over 1000 identified galaxies more than 300 Million light years from planet Earth. This mosaic is created from 5 different image series/subs and stitched together.

Zooming in on Abell 1656, pushing the Skywatcher to its limit..

Our incredible Moon...